Ultimate Boost for High-End Desktop Market With Aug. 10 Availability of 16- and 12-Core Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processors

Aug. 10 Availability of 16- and 12-Core Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processors

— Area-51 Threadripper™ Edition
from Alienware and More Than 90 Retailers and System Integrators offer Immediate Pre-Order Opportunities Worldwide —

Sunnyvale, Calif. — July 30, 2017 — The reenergizing of the
high-end desktop (HEDT) market is
much closer today with the announcement by AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) of Ryzen™ Threadripper™
global pre-order availability, with an Aug. 10th on-shelf date for the
16-core Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 12-core 1920X processor models. Building
on the 2017 introduction of 9 award-winning Ryzen™ desktop processors, AMD is
delivering on the promise of more cores and threads with Ryzen™ Threadripper™, a
“Zen”-based CPU with up to 60 percent more cores than any previous HEDT
processor1, including leadership I/O
bandwidth. Designed to bring innovation and competition back to the full
spectrum of PC markets, the high-performance Ryzen CPU architecture delivers
uncompromising performance in Ryzen Threadripper, delivering advanced feature
sets, increased efficiency, and leadership2 performance on today’s most demanding PC
workloads.

“Our goal with Ryzen
has always been to bring innovation and excitement to our customers. With Ryzen™
7, 5, and 3 processors, AMD changed the game and ensured users across every
segment of the market received the best technology, prices and overall
experience,” said Jim Anderson, senior vice president and general manager,
Computing and Graphics Group, AMD. “To complete the Ryzen™ family, we kept the
best for last. Ryzen™ Threadripper™ positions AMD at the forefront of this
exciting market for high-performance PCs, resulting in a platform that offers
the highest echelons of consumers– from data scientists to video creators to
gamers – complete and uncompromising performance.”

AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Lineup

 In addition to the previously
demonstrated 16-core and 12-core options, AMD also announced an 8-core Ryzen
Threadripper 1900X with a base clock of 3.8 GHz, a boost clock of 4.0 GHz, and
the full feature set of the X399 SocketTR4 platform with 64 PCIe® lanes.

 Pre-Sales
& Availability

 On July 27th, pre-orders for Area-51 Threadripper™
Edition from Alienware, as well as extreme performance SI systems featuring
Ryzen™ Threadripper™ became available. In addition, for customers eagerly
awaiting these high-performance processors, etailers around the world are
primed to begin taking pre-orders beginning July 31st, specifically for the
16-core, 32-thread Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 1950X and the 12-core, 24-thread 1920X
CPU. On-shelf availability for these CPUs is expected on August 10th. In addition, the 8-core,
16-thread Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 1900X is expected to launch on August 31st.

Participating
vendors* include the following, with a more complete list available here:

All AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™
processors are supported by a full ecosystem of X399 platforms at launch, with
motherboard designs already available from top motherboard manufacturers
including ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI. The new X399 platform chipsets offer
dedicated PCIe lanes for USB, graphics, data and other I/O, providing a
powerful, scalable, and reliable computing experience and bringing the benefit
of future-ready technologies.

Learn more about AMD Ryzen
Threadripper at AMD.com/Threadripper Learn more about AMD Ryzen
processors at AMD.com/Ryzen

Learn more about the “Zen” core architecture at AMD.com/Zen

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